Sir john a mcdonald biography

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    Canada's founding Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, played a supporting role in the founding of Queen's.

    Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland and emigrated with his family to Canada in He was brought up in Kingston and area, and began articling with a local law firm at the age of bygd 19, he had his own legal practice.

    As a year-old lawyer in , he attended a meeting at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, where the men who would become the founding Trustees of Queen's discussed "the proposed college to be erected in this town."

    Macdonald moved or seconded several motions in favour of establishing Queen's but, by his own admission, did not cut much of a figure at the meeting. He recalled the occasion in a speech at Queen's 50th anniversary celebrations in

    I was modest then [laughter], modest as those young friends of mine in the galleri [a group of students], and when I arose to move the resolution that was placed in my hands, and although I had prepared an eloquent oration,

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    John A. Macdonald

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    This article is about the Canadian prime minister. For people with similar names, see John Macdonald (disambiguation) and John Alexander Macdonald (disambiguation).

    The Right Honourable

    Sir John A. Macdonald

    GCB PC QC

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    In office
    17 October &#;– 6 June
    MonarchVictoria
    Governors General
    Preceded byAlexander Mackenzie
    Succeeded byJohn Abbott
    In office
    1 July &#;– 5 November
    MonarchVictoria
    Governors General
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byAlexander Mackenzie
    In office
    1 July &#;– 6 June
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byJohn Abbott
    In office
    &#;– 6 June
    In office
    30 May &#;– 30 June
    MonarchVictoria
    Preceded byJohn Sandfield Macdonald
    Succeeded byPosition abolished
    In office
    6 August &#;– 24 May
    MonarchVictoria
    Preceded byGeorge Brown
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    MACDONALD, JOHN, merchant, churchman, philanthropist, and politician; b. 27 Dec.  in Perth, Scotland, son of Elizabeth Nielson and John Macdonald; m. in Eliza Hamilton (d. ); m. secondly in Annie Elizabeth Alcorn; d. 4 Feb.  at Toronto, Ont.

    Raised on floggings and Presbyterian prayer-meetings to be an intensely serious lad, John Macdonald came to Canada in when the regiment in which his father was an officer was sent out in response to the colonial disturbances. He briefly attended Dalhousie College in Halifax, then Bay Street Academy in Toronto, before entering the firm of C. and J. McDonald of Gananoque as a clerk in In he joined the Toronto dry goods house of Walter Macfarlane whereupon he fell into worldly habits until his conversion to Methodism in through the influence of a fellow clerk. He became a local preacher, but instead of entering the ministry as planned he left his job in and went to Jamaica for reasons of health. After a year,

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